Hanks posted the photo on Saturday, just a day after it was learned that Variety had instituted a new policy whereby they refuse to run stories in the print edition that were fed to their comtetition first.

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"We simply said that if you give any of these show business websites the story first, then we'll put the story on the Web -- for the record -- but we won't put it in the print edition," VarietyEditor Tim Gray told the Los Angeles Times' Big Picture.

People with cellphones -- which is to say everybody -- will soon render the issue moot.

Published at 7:47 AM CDT on Mar 29, 2010 | Updated at 1:41 PM CDT on May 30, 2012